Twilight of the Sultanate c3.39

c3.39

My study of the times has led me to certain conclusions. They have been discussed in detail in their proper places, and need not be reproduced here. Two points, however, may be emphasised. Firstly, Tīmūr's invasion, which is rightly regarded as a terrible calamity, was not without a silver lining. It taught the Hindus and the Muslims to stand together in the face of a foreign foe. The urge for unity grew as time advanced. It found its culmination in the teachings of the socio-religious reformers of the fifteenth-sixteenth century. The yearning for Hindu-Muslim rapprochement is the burden of the fifteenth century social history. Secondly, despite the political instability almost throughout the whole of this period of one century and a quarter, there was sustained progress in all spheres of social and cultural activity.